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Joe Klein, writing at Time magazine's online blog, has discovered that Al Qaeda is *gasp* racist! No, really! And all it took was the election of a person of color.

The Zawahiri letter is one of the first real indications we have of the new international state of affairs (the Ahmadinejad letter of congratulations may also have been a good sign, but was leavened by the author's lack of real power and the fact that he's running for reelection). The terrorists are now exposed as racists, on top of everything else. We have many miles to go in Afghanistan and the northern and western precincts of Pakistan, and more blood to shed--and innumerable ways to screw up, since no one has ever gotten Afghanistan right--but the wind seems to have shifted slightly and is now at our back.

Who would have thought that people who wage a violent holy war against those who believe in any other religion (especially Jews and Christians, who share many of the same traditions), preach hatred in mosques from Detroit to Indonesia and who consider women property, to be murdered if they chose to go against the will of their male relatives and the Q'uran, would also be animated by racial prejudice? This is news, I tell you! Why, the UN Human Rights Commission may actually get involved now.

In a related story, Klein has discovered that if you hit the keys on your computer, they correspond to the letters that appear on the monitor.

They have insulted the great Obamessiah! There isn't much that can trump that in Loony Lefty land. Maybe if they started picking on gays :p

The Taliban used to knock walls over onto gays as a means of execution. I always thought that it was a bizarre way to kill people, not to mention a waste of walls in a country where shelter is hard to come by. Gay activists don't seem to care about such things overseas, but not being able to get married in California enrages them.